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Are international students passing university courses at the same rate as domestic students?

  • Written by: Andrew Norton, Higher Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
Are international students passing university courses at the same rate as domestic students?For bachelor degrees, the pass rates between international and domestic students are similar. But a more complex picture emerges in the postgraduate space.from shutterstock.com

Monday night’s ABC Four Corners program alleged several universities were admitting international students without the English-language skills needed to successfully...

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Can we bend it? The challenge for Samsung and others to make flexible technology

  • Written by: Drew Evans, Associate Professor of Energy & Advanced Manufacturing, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, University of South Australia
Can we bend it? The challenge for Samsung and others to make flexible technologyA smartphone that bends: one day soon this could be your flexible friend.Shutterstock/Gang Liu

Imagine the day when you’ll unroll or unfold your smartphone to answer it. If things go to plan, this day may be sooner than you think.

And we’re not just talking flip-phones here, but smartphones where the actual screens are flexible, not just...

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Selling out the city to advertising? Nothing new to see here

  • Written by: Robert Crawford, Professor of Advertising, RMIT University
Selling out the city to advertising? Nothing new to see hereLarger-than-life advertising is nothing new for our cities – this billboard is at the corner of Flinders and Elizabeth streets in Melbourne.jadecraven/Shutterstock

Recent debates about prominent advertising in Melbourne and Sydney have highlighted public concerns about the commercialisation of public space. The sense that our cities have...

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are water crystals bad for the environment?

  • Written by: Michelle Ryan, Lecturer - Environmental Health and Management, Western Sydney University
are water crystals bad for the environment?Gardeners use water crystals to drought-proof their plants.Shutterstock

This is an article from I’ve Always Wondered, a series where readers send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. Send your question to alwayswondered@theconversation.edu.au

Are water crystals bad for the environment? –Terry Gilmour

This is an excellent...

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